JERUSALEM (BNO NEWS) -- The Israeli Foreign Ministry has summoned Egypt's ambassador to Israel to a meeting over remarks made by Egyptian interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf that the peace treaty between the two countries should be revised.

Haaretz newspaper reported on Saturday that Foreign Ministry Director General Rafi Barak asked the Egyptian envoy to clarify Sharaf's remarks, especially considering previous contradictory remarks made by Egypt's military council that the peace treaty should be preserved.

During the meeting, Barak told the Egyptian envoy, Yasser Rida, that Israel was not satisfied that the Egyptian youth who took down the flag from Israel's embassy in Cairo last week was being presented as a hero in Egypt. He added that this act is against the international treaty to which Egypt is a signatory.

Last Friday, more than 2,000 protesters gathered in front of Israel's embassy in Cairo to dismantle a concrete wall which was set up by security forces around the premises. During the attack, a protester brought down, for the second time, the Israeli flag on the building, replacing it with the Egyptian flag.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the attack on the embassy was an assault on "the axis of peace" with Egypt. He also said that those who tore down the flag outside the building "oppose peace".

The clashes forced Israeli ambassador Yitzhak Levanon, his family and staff to flee the country in the middle of the night on a military flight. However, six security guards and embassy workers were inside the building when the clashes took place.

Three Egyptian civilians were killed and 1,049 were injured after fierce clashes between police forces and Egyptian protesters erupted outside the embassy.